Posted on July 17, 2008 by jtreadway
Nancy Schwartz just awarded winners in her “best taglines” contest - Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards. In general, most company taglines - nonprofit or for profit - are worthless. A tagline should relate to your mantra or vision about what you want to be. “Ultimate Driving Machine” from BMW is a great example [...]
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Posted on June 26, 2008 by jtreadway
While waiting for the development team to post an update I caught up on some of my blogs that I don’t get to very often. On of these, Presentation Zen, is truly excellent and should be on anybody’s “must read” list if they give or help prepare presentations.
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Posted on June 26, 2008 by jtreadway
We’ve got a big demo tomorrow and are working frantically to fix bugs and spruce it up. Typical startup stuff. Fortunately here in Framingham we have lots of food options for the late night. Unfortunately the chicken fajita roll-up I just ate was not good. Way too much oil on the grill. Oh well, can’t [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by jtreadway
One of the blogs I like to read is from Ben Casnocha - a guy who started his first company at age 14 and knows just about everybody in Silicon Valley. He’s now 20 or so an in college and just wrote an article for the U.S. State Department on high tech entrepreneurship and what [...]
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Posted on March 20, 2008 by jtreadway
A key partner we need to execute the site is looking for over $35k to use their API every year, plus an $8,000 set up fee. We’re bootstrapped and need to conserve cash. Aside from the fact that I find it hard to see how it costs them $35k per year to support a partner [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2008 by jtreadway
It’s a winner!
That’s what the survey results say about Givvy. We did a survey of 102 people and over 51% rated themselves as “Enthusiastic” about the concept. Only 8% rated themselves as “Resistors” who would not use us. The remainder fell into that netherworld of neutral - or in politics “undecided!” All we have to [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2008 by jtreadway
Givvy is in the market for a space for the team to work. We want to spend as little as possible, without being in a hovel of course. The SV guys have it easy - they can work out of their garages 12 months of the year. Here in New England, there are about 3 [...]
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Posted on December 19, 2007 by jtreadway
As our team starts to dig into the act of creating Givvy, I’m reminded of how fun and liberating new beginnings can be. We have no servers going down at 3am, no payroll headaches, no personnel issues, no marketing flops or other disasters that force us to be reactive rather than proactive.
Today there’s only [...]
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